Phone:

(812) 856-1230

Email:

hekhalid@iu.edu

Department:

Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Major:

PhD

Hewa S. Khalid is working on Central/Sorani Kurdish and Northern/Kurmanji Kurdish development and teaching. He defended his doctoral dissertation Teaching Kurdish As A Second Language in 2019. His current research focuses on Kurdish language and its dialects.

Education:

• PhD, Social Sciences Institute, Dicle University, 2019.
• MA, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 2013.
• BA, Department of Kurdish Language and Literature, Koya University, 2009.

• Kurdish Studies
• Language teaching
• Language continuum
• Geographical dialects
• Language contact
• Kurdish language grammar

• Co-author of "Teaching and learning Kurdish in Kurdistan: Achievements and Challenges," in Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics, Oxford University Press (*forthcoming).
• "The Traditional Second Language Teaching Methods (in Kurdish)," edited by Ahmet Kirkan & Mehmet Yonat, Kurdish Linguistics, Peywend Akademi, 2021.
• "Kurdish as a Medium of Instruction in Iraqi Kurdistan, (in Kurdish)" edited by; Şehmus Kurt, Education and Teaching in Kurdish: Experience, Model and Suggestions, Ismail Beşkçi foundation, 2021.
• "Kurdish Language, Its Family and Dialects," Kurdiname, 2 (2), pp 133-146, 2020.
• "The New Methods of Second Language Teaching and Their Influence on Kurdish Language," Kurdiname, 2 (2), pp 17-52, 2020.
• "Newroz from Kurdish and Persian Perspectives–A Comparative Study," Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 7 (1), pp. 116-130, 2020.
• Hinker: Elementary Central/Sorani Kurdish Textbook, Kurdish Institute in Istanbul & Koya University, Istanbul, 2019.
• Co-author (responsible for the section on the Kurds), National Fabric, Iran’s Ethnic Minorities, Small media publication, 2015.
• "Kurdish Dialect Continuum, as a Standardization Solution," International Journal of Kurdish Studies, 1 (1), pp. 27-39, 2015.